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I am the Soul
that one is bound to lose sight of self. The self will not be conscious of the Self. What would a person be called if he himself becomes heedless about his Self? Why, in practical life too, when we come across some shortcomings in some work we chide the person saying, "you are absolutely mindless' or 'where is your attention?'.
This is of course, the case of attention towards the Self. Why did he forget the Self and get stuck on renunciation and detachment? When detachment arises, it has to be a step towards progress, it is not something to get stuck with.
Mahayogi Anandaghanji Maharaj has expressed through a verse -
3tay dra det bra ...... ant ut a Ha art. . . . . . Bray जीने माया - ममता खाई सुख दुःख दोनों भाई काम क्रोध दोनों को खाई
uş qut ... ... stay
There exists such a belief that if a child is born in the Moola nakshatra (constellation), it becomes the cause of the entire family's destruction. Of course, today this belief would not hold much water. But there used to be times when parents would abandon a child born in Moola nakshatra. It is said that the composer of “Ramcharitamanas' the saint Goswami Tulsidasji had also been abandoned by his parents.
Here in these verses, Anandaghanji Maharaj has equated renunciation with such a child and has tried to tell us how the inner-world (equated with family) is destroyed by it. He says -
वाने खोज कुटुंब सब खाया Renunciation has destroyed the entire family. That is, the internal world which is the cause of all the creation in the external world, is destroyed because of renunciation. Let us try to understand this concept through the Vedic viewpoint.
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